Mgr. Petra Johana Poncarová, PhD.

• e-mail: PetraJohana.Poncarova (at) ff.cuni.cz
• phone: +420 221 619 341
• office: 219a (Faculty of Arts, nám. Jana Palacha 2)
• office hours: by appointment
• ORCID
• ResearchGate
• bibliography (December 2021)

Academic assistant and researcher (KREAS), project manager of the H2020, MSCA ITN European Joint Doctorate (EJD) Project MOVES. Her research focuses on Scottish literature and culture, especially on modern writing in Scottish Gaelic (Derick Thomson, Sorley MacLean, Tormod Caimbeul, Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar), and on British literature of the 20th and 21st century. She is depute convenor for Europe of the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures, international affiliated member of The Scottish Revival Network, and co-director of Ionad Eòghainn MhicLachlain | National Centre for Gaelic Translation. She is part of the teaching and organizing team of the International Summer School of Romanticism.

Selected Publications

Monographs

• The Gaelic Poetry of Derick Thomson (Scotnote Study Guide). Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2020.

Essays in Academic Journals

• “Old Women, Dreams, and Reversed Revivals: Derick Thomson’s Gaelic Short Stories”, Scottish Literary Review 13:2 (2021)
•  “Tři pohledy na Posvátný hlad Barryho Unsworthe”, Svět literatury 64:XXXI (2021)
• “Derick Thomson and the Ossian Controversy”, Anglica 29:3 (2020)
• “Eadar Canaan is Garrabost (Between Canaan and Garrabost): Religion in Derick Thomson’s Lewis Poetry”, Studies in Scottish Literature 46:1 (2020)
•  “A Fitting Offering to the Gaelic Thalia or Melpomene: Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar and Drama in Scottish Gaelic”, Litteraria Pragensia 30:59 (2020)
• “Snake Women and Hideous Sensations:The Strange Case of Gaelic Detective Short Stories by Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar”, Scottish Literary Review 12:1 (2020)
• “As Ancient Oak that Grows on Heath Alone: St. St. Blicher and Macpherson’s Ossian in Denmark”, Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies 6:2 (2019)
• “An Druim bho Thuath: Tormod Caimbeul’s Last Vista of Gaelic Scotland”, Litteraria Pragensia 28:54 (2018)
• “The Gael Cosmopolite: Tormod Caimbeul and Shrapnel (2006)”, Litteraria Pragensia 27:53 (2017)
• “Sorley MacLean’s Other Clearance Poems”, Studies in Scottish Literature 43:1 (2017)

Chapters in Collective Monographs (selection)

• “Derick Thomson’s An Rathad Cian (The Far Road, 1970): Modern Gaelic Poetry of Place between Introspection and Politics”, Place and Space in Scottish Literature, ed. M. Szuba and J. Wolfreys (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
• “The Best Scottish Gaelic Novel? Reception and Analysis of Tormod Caimbeul’s Deireadh an Fhoghair“, Imagining Scotishness: European and Domestic Representations, ed. A. Korzeniowska and I. Szymanska (Semper, 2017)
• “Hallaig Sorleyho MacLeana. Báseň a místo”, Hlasy míst: prostor, místo a geografie ve světové poezii, ed. K. Soukupová and M. Špína (CUFA Press, 2016)
• “‘Nuair a Dh’fhalbhas a’ Ghàidhlig’ (When Gaelic Goes): Gaelic in the Poetry of Derick Thomson”, Scottish Culture: Dialogue and Self-Expression, ed. A. Korzeniowska and I. Szymanska (Semper, 2016)
• “A Tale of a City: Edwin Muir and Prague”, Scotland in Europe / Europe in Scotland: Links – Dialogues – Analogies, ed. A. Korzeniowska and I. Szymanska (Semper, 2014)

Co-edited Journal Volumes

•  “Migration and Intercultural Communication”, Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture 31:61 (2021), with Martin Procházka
• “Celtic Languages in a Globalised World”, Litteraria Pragensia 30:59 (2020), with Radvan Markus
• “Irish-Language and Scottish Gaelic Literatures: A Global Context”, Litteraria Pragensia 28:54 (2018), with Radvan Markus
• “Cultural Exchanges in Scottish Literature”, Litteraria Pragensia 27:53 (2017), with Martin Procházka

Invited Lectures

• “Scottish Literature in the 20th and 21st Century: Languages, Trends, Personalities”, University of Hradec Králové, 26 October 2021
• “A’ comharrachadh Ruaraidh MhicThòmais (A celebration of Derick Thomson)”, video lecture with Professor Meg Bateman and Dr Anne Frater, 14 October 2021
• “Sgeulachdan ghoirid le Ruaraidh MacThòmais”, Glasgow Gaelic Society / Comann Gàidhlig Ghlaschu, 23 October 2021 (online)
• “Why Gaelic Matters”, University of Warsaw, 10 May 2021 (online)
• “Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar and Derick Thomson: Gaelic Innovators”, University of Glasgow, 18 June 2019
• “Modern Scottish Gaelic Literature”, University of Hradec Králové, 8 November 2017

Awards

• Josef Hlávka Award (2020)
• Martin Hilský Award (2020)
• Jiří Levý Award (2016/17)
• Mathesius Award (2014)

Thesis Supervision

BA, MA, and PhD thesis proposals are welcome in the following areas: Scottish literature; Scottish Gaelic literature; twentieth-century British literature.

If you are looking for an idea, I would be especially keen to supervise theses on the following authors / topics:

• British literature: A. S. Byatt; M. R. James; J. G. Farrell; W. H. Hodgson; Arthur Machen; Hilary Mantel; Violet Paget (Vernon Lee); Salman Rushdie; Barry Unsworth; slavery in British literature and culture
• Scottish literature:  A. C. Doyle; William McIlvanney; R. L. Stevenson; Christopher Whyte
• Scottish Gaelic literature: Ruaraidh Arascain is Mhàirr (Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar); Tormod Caimbeul (Norman Campbell); Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean); Crìsdean MacIlleBhàin (Christopher Whyte); Ruaraidh MacThòmais (Derick Thomson); the Osssian controversy